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The boy who became Buffalo Bill : growing up Billy Cody in bleeding Kansas
by Warren, Andrea (Author)
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Summary
Explores how the man who became the most famous entertainer of his time and a legend of the "Wild West" grew up amid a violent regional conflict that would soon tear apart the nation. Full description
Table of Contents:
- A note of caution to readers
- Use of terminology in this book
- Prologue, 1894
- Losing Sam
- On the road to Kansas
- Slavery becomes real
- Billy visits Fort Leavenworth
- Arriving in the promised land
- At home in the valley
- Isaac Cody's bloody trail
- Pro-slave or free state?
- Billy sounds the alarm
- Billy meets the abolitionists
- John Brown's war in Kansas
- Father
- Billy the hero
- Trouble with the Mormons
- Billy and the Indians
- Billy rides the Pony Express
- Bily's volunteer war
- Billy joins the red legs
- Quantrill takes revenge
- Mother
- Private Cody : scout and spy
- A soldier's life
- Becoming Buffalo Bill
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West
- The later life and legacy of the boy from Bleeding Kansas
- More about Buffalo Bill and his times.
